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Advanced Level 2 Lesson 3
Building Challenge
Time to put your skills to the test and build a robot that can navigate a competition field!
The Challenge:
You have one minute on the clock! Your robot needs place as many cubes as it can in the goal before the minute is over. However, you have a few design constraints that your robot must meet.
What are Design Constraints?
Design constraints are specific limitations or requirements that your robot has to meet. Robot engineers need to meet those requirements when they build robots for their customers.
The Field
The field is a square that is 1 meter wide and 1 meter long. There is a goal in the center that the robot must place the cubes into. The robot starts in the center of the bottom edge of the field. Three cubes are placed in each corner of the field, one of each color (red, green, and blue) at the start.
Your Design Constraints:
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Your robot must have at least one sensor that can let it know when it gets close to something (a distance sensor or a bump sensor)
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Your robot must have an appendage that allows it to lift up objects on the field
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Program the remote control to move your robot around the field
Helpful Hints:
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Brainstorm possible solutions in your engineering design notebook
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For help with programming with the controller, review it in Intermediate Level 2 Lesson 4, or go to the VEX IQ Info Page
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Review the different types of manipulation to think about the design for your appendage
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